"At his best Jeffreys writes memorable, perturbating prose with an overwhelming sense of menace. The stories stay with the reader, touching something in the psyche that is both troubling and intriguing." Bristol Review of Books.

Bio

Tim Jeffreys was born in the old cotton mill town of Oldham,
Lancashire, in 1973. He displayed a
creative bent from an early age which eventually led to him escaping the car-wreck
of his early education and attempts at employment to study Graphic Arts and
Design at Leeds University on the other side of the Pennines. Unfortunately, by this time writing had
become his main focus. His early
influences included writers of the macabre and fantastical such as Stephen
King, Mervyn Peake, Ray Bradbury, and Angela Carter; Pre-Raphaelite Art, The
Surrealists; foreign cinema; the Alien trilogy; Bladerunner; and The Crow. From this melting pot, he began writing short
stories at the turn of the millennium, eventually collecting them together as
his first book The Garden Where Black
Flowers Grow. Never one to do things
in the easiest and most-obvious way, Tim did – for a period of time - also get
professional actors to read his stories out loud, which he then recorded in a
proper recording studio and collected together as audio books. Over 1000 of these were sold via his website
and sent out all over the world until pod-casting upstaged these efforts.

In 2011 his first short story was professionally published
in the Horror Zine anthology What Fears
Become. After this, Tim became
determined to see more of his work in print, and has since gone on to have over
50 of his short stories published in anthologies and magazines. These stories have been amassed in further
collections - The Lucky Penny and Other
Stories and From Elsewhere - in
which he hopes to show that, if nothing else, he is improving. In 2016, his novella Voids – co-written with his good friend Martin Greaves – was published
by Omnium Gatherum Books, which has only served to encourage Tim further;
although he still hates writing about himself in the third person.

Though Tim now has children and a mortgage, and must
therefore make a show of being an adult, he still retains that child-like love
for sea-monsters, deep space, sirens, aliens, exotic women, robots, strange
locales, spaceships, vampires, werewolves, private I’s, femme fatales, magic,
and spooks of every kind. And he will
continue writing about these things until common sense or public opinion forces
him to stop.

To hurl abuse or goodwill, or just to say hi, contact Tim
at: timdazjef@gmail.com. He will most likely respond in kind.